The Last Stand: Aftermath

Took about 13 hours to thoroughly play through the game, made all of the most required upgrades with a few more left. Game play is a solid 8/10, simple yet satisfying. Lots of looting, shooting and slashing. The game will feel a little slow to start but future upgrades stream lines the whole process making it buttery smooth. Story, decent 7/10 for me. Its actually what kept me playing the game besides wanting to unlock everything. Don't expect the most amazing story telling, but be expected to want to know more about the world and our goals. Music, a solid 7.5/10. Creates the ambiance needed in a zombie game to feel isolated and surrounded by the undead. Not bad at all. Critiques: Honestly not much? Nothing in this game really bothered me and it was a good experiance overall. But I will list a few oberservation and maybe slight qualms I had through my 10 or so play throughs. -If you don't have a mutation that gives you grab resistance, expect to never break out of a grab and take the damage. No matter how fast I mash, I can't get out of them. -No body part damage multipliers since its an isometric shooter, but thats expected. -Melee weapons feel very good, almost a little …

This is not a good game. I spent 27 hours of my life to finish this game because I am the epitome of a sunk-cost fallacy. Playing with a controller is recommended, the menu tells you. Rebinding your keys is forbidden though, so enjoy reloading with R1 and shooting your healing items with R2. You may recognize some (all but 1.5) of the "special infected" from the L4D series (although it feels like almost every zombie/horde shooter cycles the same archetypes we've seen since however long ago), or perhaps the timed reload mechanic from GOW. RNG is atrocious, expect to find 4 medpacks and 3 flareguns to every battery. What's wrong with medpacks? They're heavy and slow to use, and you literally can't benefit from the full heal effect of them because it's your entire (constantly diminishing because infection) health bar, so they always feel like a waste when bandages are quicker and much lighter, as long as you remember to craft them so you don't get weighed down with water bottles. What's so great about batteries? Batteries are the entire game. Basically every failed run was a case of either bad battery spending decisions, or bad battery looting RNG. I'm not sure I ever die…

I played The Last Stand: Union City on Armorgames.com as a kid. One of my fave flash games of all time. This is a very different game. How it plays, how it looks, how it FEELS- very different. That's not to say it's not good, just different. The top-down camera takes some getting used to, and frankly there are some problems with it (especially inside buildings). The story is...serviceable. It does its best to make the mechanics make sense, and mostly succeeds. But let's be honest, no one is really here for the story. The combat is fine, but it's very dependent on the terrain. You can only aim around you, not up and down, so if an enemy is above or below you can't hit them. There's a decent variety of enemy types, and learning how to deal with them is part of the fun. The game is unforgiving, especially at first. But as you unlock skills it becomes easier to progress each run. The resource economy is fairly well-tuned imo, you always have options but you also have to be frugal with ammo/throwables/healing items. I still have not officially "beaten" the story because the final boss glitched so I couldn't loot his corpse for the item I needed to complete the last area, wh…

The satifying cling and critting zombies with a crowbar. 12 hours in, 2 in the morning, works going to be brutal tomorrow.

Charmy with a lot of jank. If they made a second game and fixed some stuff it could be amazing!

It's a fun concept, you have limited time as you are going turn sooner or later. It's great for casual gaming, as you can play a run as long or as short as you want. However, it has a one bug in particualr that is annoying, in the last region "Hell," sometimes zombies wont appear, but you will still recieve damage as if they were present. Also, getting all the way to the final Boss, dying, and then having to travel all the way from the start is a bit of niusance. But all in all, I have rather enjoyed the game.